Educational degree: PhD

The purpose of the discipline: the formation of practical skills and abilities of scientific research of global trade policy on the basis of acquiring knowledge about the imperatives, logic and technologies of its creation and implementation.

Tasks of the discipline:

- to teach to analyze the state and identify trends in international trade;

- to develop an understanding of the essence, preconditions and logic, mechanisms and methods of global trade policy formation;

- to help to understand the mechanisms of realization of national economic interests in the global trading system and the preconditions for the emergence and technology of resolving trade disputes:

- to promote awareness of the modern format of institutional support for global trade policy and international trade and economic relations;

- to equip graduate students with knowledge of modern methods and instruments of global trade policy, the feasibility and effectiveness of trade policy measures, as well as mechanisms for applying trade measures to protect national markets, standards and technical barriers, rules for determining the origin of goods;

- to form a system of knowledge of global rules and norms of formation and implementation of the country's trade policy on goods, services and intellectual property rights;

- to promote the acquisition of knowledge of current trends and mechanisms of regional trade integration in the context of liberalization of global markets for goods, services and intellectual property rights;

- to form an understanding of promising and problematic areas of global trade policy that need multilateral harmonization;

- to promote a systematic approach to understanding the nature and relationship of commercial diplomacy and global trade policy;

- to form the ability to apply the acquired knowledge in research activities, in particular in the analysis of the effectiveness of national trade policy and justification of areas for improvement.

Subject of the discipline: the relations that arise between the subjects of international trade and economic relations on the formation and implementation of global trade policy.
 

The discipline "Global Trade Policy" focuses on the formation of the following research competencies among the graduate students (PhD students):

- knowledge of patterns, trends and vector orientation of international trade in the context of globalization;

- knowledge of preconditions and factors of development of global trade policy, analysis of trade policies of the countries, estimation of the reasons, conditions and tendencies of application of regulatory instruments in the conditions of asymmetric global economic development;

- knowledge of the WTO procedural mechanisms for settling trade disputes and analyzing the effectiveness of the country's participation in the WTO multilateral trading system and assessing the adequacy of commercial diplomacy measures to national economic interests, trade policy goals and areas of positive image of the country in the global economic system;

- understanding the essence of the institutional support of global trade policy and the formation of a system of international trade regulation at the corporate, national and international, supranational and global levels;

- knowledge of modern methods and instruments of global trade policy and mechanisms for the application of trade measures to protect markets (special protective, countervailing and anti-dumping measures), standards and technical barriers, rules for determining the origin of goods;

- possession of a theoretical arsenal of regulatory instruments in the spheres of trade in goods, services, results of intellectual work in order to identify the positions of the parties in bilateral and multilateral trade and economic negotiations;

- knowledge of regional trade agreements, their challenges and benefits for national business, features of development and substantiation of components of the country's trade policy and proposals for the formation of the state's position in the bilateral trade and economic negotiation process;

- understanding the reasons for the need for legal harmonization of competition policy, investment, environmental protection, e-commerce as promising areas of international trade regulation; knowledge of the organization of the implementation of the country's negotiating positions in the process of participation in the multilateral trading system of the WTO and the use of measures and instruments of global trade policy and commercial diplomacy of the country; planning the activities of structural units of government agencies and non-governmental organizations in the field of commercial diplomacy; identification of effective from the standpoint of achieving the goals of foreign economic policy forms and methods of commercial diplomacy;

- ability to use the acquired knowledge in research activities of graduate students and operate international databases in order to determine national trade interests and implement the best foreign experience in the foreign trade policy of Ukraine; identification of regulatory priorities and assessment of the feasibility of changing the regulatory mechanism for the creation and implementation of trade policy of Ukraine, initiation and development

Learning outcomes:

Upon successful fulfillment of the requirements for mastering the discipline, the graduate student (PhD student) will be able to:

- identify effective forms of trade policy forms and mechanisms from the standpoint of achieving foreign economic policy goals, modern architecture and factors of global trade system development, study trade policies of countries, determine the causes and consequences of regulatory instruments in trade in goods, services, intellectual labor;

- study, develop and substantiate the components of the national trade policy and proposals on the formation of the country's position in the bilateral and multilateral trade and economic negotiation process; to promote the formation of a positive image of Ukraine in the global economic system;

- anticipate permanent global transformations of the world economy and identify regulatory priorities and trends in improving the global trading system, assess changes in the regulatory mechanism for the creation and implementation of trade policy.